I can't for the life of me remember her address.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
死活
life or death
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
life or death
02
fate
03
no matter what
04
anyway
05
for the life of me
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 死活 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 死活 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom doesn't know if Mary is dead or alive.
If I'd known that it would come to this, I would have never consented.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 死活.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 死活.
Directly before
- 地址死活1
- 的死活1
- 我死活1
Directly after
- 死活想不起来1
- 死活不1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 死活
What does 死活 mean in Chinese?
死活 (sǐhuó) means life or death.
How do you pronounce 死活?
死活 is pronounced sǐhuó.
Is 死活 an HSK word?
死活 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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